-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, TEZ7+omUs7udLeBxQRmy5Hs24XYJHtDeIX9FCafvGfXzahjPfM0F2K7A/+jSqWva Q65CM1pT/KwkjZnBIuFX2w== 0001183010-04-000021.txt : 20040325 0001183010-04-000021.hdr.sgml : 20040325 20040325113055 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001183010-04-000021 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040322 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040325 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SCHERMER GRANT E CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001216282 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-06227 FILM NUMBER: 04688797 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ADVISORY RESEARCH, INC. STREET 2: 180 N. STETSON, STE. 5780 CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60601-6795 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: LEE ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED STREET 2: 215 N MAIN ST STE 400 CITY: DAVENPORT STATE: IA ZIP: 52801 FORMER NAME: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SCHERMER GRANT DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20030128 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LEE ENTERPRISES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000058361 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NEWSPAPERS: PUBLISHING OR PUBLISHING & PRINTING [2711] IRS NUMBER: 420823980 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 400 PUTNAM BLDG STREET 2: 215 N MAIN ST CITY: DAVENPORT STATE: IA ZIP: 52801 BUSINESS PHONE: 3193832100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 400 PUTNAM BUILDING STREET 2: 215 N. MAIN STREET CITY: DAVENPORT STATE: IA ZIP: 52801 3 1 schermergrform3_ex.xml X0201 3 2004-03-22 0 0000058361 LEE ENTERPRISES INC LEE ENT 0001216282 SCHERMER GRANT E C/O ADVISORY RESEARCH, INC. 180 NORTH STETSON, STE. 5780 CHICAGO IL 60601-6795 0 0 1 0 Common Stock 99 D Class B Common Stock 513146 D Class B Common Stock 200 I By Trust Class B Common Stock 1163996 I By Trust in Schermer Investment Partnership Class B Common Stock 55010 I By Trust On March 19, 2004, in a transaction exempt from Section 16(b), Schermer Management Corporation ("SMC") transferred 2,000 shares of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated Class B Common Stock ("Lee Class B") to Schermer Investment Partnership, L.P. ("SIP"), a family limited partnership, and SMC received in exchange 1 general partner unit of SIP. The Reporting Person's trust, Gregory P. Schermer and trusts for the benefit of Lloyd G. Schermer and Betty A. Schermer each holds 25% of SMC's outstanding common stock. On March 20, 2004, in transactions exempt from Section 16(b), a trust for the benefit of Lloyd G. Schermer transferred 436,828 shares of Lee Class B to SIP and the trust received in exchange 37.20 limited partner units of SIP and a trust for the benefit of Betty A. Schermer transferred 725,138 shares of Lee Class B to SIP and the trust received in exchange 61.80 limited partner units of SIP. As a result of these transactions and SMC's transfer to SIP, SIP holds 1,163,966 shares of Lee Class B. On March 22, 2004, in transactions exempt from Section 16(b), trusts for the benefit of Lloyd G. Schermer and Betty A. Schermer each made a gift of 5 limited partner units of SIP to Reporting Person's trust and Gregory P. Schermer. Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of all the shares of Lee Class B held by SIP, including those held indirectly by SMC, except to the extent of his trust's pecuniary interest therein. Edmund H. Carroll, Limited POA 2004-03-25 EX-24 2 schermergrform3poa.htm

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints any attorney with the law firm of Lane & Waterman, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact, to:

  (1)     execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a ten percent (10%) or greater stockholder of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

  (2)     do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority and make any application required to effect electronic filing of such forms; and

  (3)     take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 9th day of March 2004.



/s/Grant E. Schermer
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Grant E. Schermer
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